BEING A SINGLE DAD CAN SHORTEN YOUR LIFE – STUDY
By AFP
15 February 2018 | 12:40 pm

The risk of dying prematurely more than doubles for single fathers compared to single mothers or paired-up dads, according to a study of Canadian families published Thursday.

“Our research highlights that single fathers have higher mortality, and demonstrates the need for public health policies to help identify and support these men,” said lead author Maria Chiu, a scientist at the University of Toronto.

The findings, published in The Lancet Public Health, may apply to wealthy nations with similar ratios of single-parent families to Canada, the researchers said.

Chiu and colleagues tracked nearly 40,500 people across Canada over 11 years. The subjects — who included 4,590 single moms and 871 single dads — were, on average, in their early 40s when the study began.

Nearly 700 died by the end of the monitoring period.

Compared to partnered fathers or single moms, the death rate was three times higher among single fathers.
Factoring in that solo dads tended to be older, had higher cancer rates, and were more prone to heart disease, the researchers concluded their mortality risk was still twice as high.

Likely culprits include poor lifestyle choices and stress, Chiu said.

“We did find that single fathers tended to have unhealthier lifestyles,” which could include poor diet, lack of exercise, or excessive drinking, she said.

Men parenting on their own were more likely to be separated, divorced or widowed than single mothers — a larger proportion of whom raise babies conceived outside of a relationship, the team found.

Having experienced a breakup is a risk factor for mental ill health.

“These results show that single fathers might be a particularly vulnerable group,” Rachel Simpson, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, commented in the same journal.

Making matters worse, a 2016 study showed that go-it-alone dads — even if they acknowledge being in poor shape, physically and mentally — are less likely to seek professional help than women.

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Single-parent households have become more common across the developed world in recent decades.


In the United States, for example, the percentage of children living with single mothers nearly tripled from eight percent in 1960 to 23 percent in 2016, according to the US Census.

The percentage living with single fathers increased from one to four over the same period.

In Europe, Denmark tops the list of single-parent households which make up 30 percent of the total.

Of those, 23 percent are headed by women and seven percent by men, according to the OECD rich country grouping.

The corresponding percentages are 19 and four for France; 14 and five for Sweden, 17 and two for Germany; 16 and three for Canada.

Rates of single-parenthood are even higher in many low-income nations, especially in Africa, according to Joseph Chamie, former director of the UN Population Division.

Close to 40 percent of children in South Africa, for example, have their mother as the sole parent, and four percent have only a dad.

Other countries with a large share of single-parent households include Mozambique (36 percent), Dominican Republic (35 percent), Liberia (31 percent), and Kenya (30 percent), he noted in a 2016 report.

“Of the world’s 2.3 billion children, 14 percent — or 320 million — are living in a single-parent household,” he calculated.

In at least two categories, single fathers hold a slight edge over solo moms.

Researchers at the University of Illinois found that moms on their own make about two-thirds of what their male counterparts earn.

And a study in South Korea, published in PLOS ONE, showed single mothers were three times more likely to become alcohol dependent.

REPORT JULY 2, 2013
The Rise of Single Fathers A Ninefold Increase Since 1960
BY GRETCHEN LIVINGSTON



A record 8% of households with minor children in the United States are headed by a single father, up from just over 1% in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Decennial Census and American Community Survey data.

SDT-2013-07-single-fathers-01The number of single father households has increased about ninefold since 1960, from less than 300,000 to more than 2.6 million in 2011.1 In comparison, the number of single mother households increased more than fourfold during that time period, up to 8.6 million in 2011, from 1.9 million in 1960.

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Single Moms vs. Single Dads: Examining the Double Standards of Single Parenthood
While society's commitment to promoting equality for all parents is only getting stronger, social perceptions of single moms and single dads still vary greatly. Let's investigate the disparities and pinpoint how we can do better to support all solo parents.

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KanwuliaExtra:
Where there are resources to help single mothers. . . very few are available for single fathers if at all.
We are all familiar with the single mother experience. I WAS RAISED BY A SINGLE DAD IN NIGERIA. . . .proudly so. (My mom lived down the street. . . but refused to live with my dad . . . for many gooooood reasons. . . . They were sooooooooooo incompartible. Na only pregnancy bring them toghether I swear!). . . .I honestly could say I WOULD NOT HAVE MARRIED EITHER OF THEM WALAHI! My dad. . .thought he could handle single-parenthood. . . and my mom ended up outliving him. Case-closed! I am a living example of what single-parenting can do to a MAN WITHOUT THE HELP OF A WIFE OR PARTNER. . . .HE NEVER REMARRIED! My father refused to allow ANY OTHER WOMAN COME INTO HIS HOUSE TO RAISE HIS 4 CHILDREN. . . AND DIED RAISING THEM HIMSELF or with MY MOM ONLY. Respects darling father. You were not a TYPICAL NIGERIAN WOMAN-WRAPPER OF A MAN.

When my parents divorced. . . my mom objected to joint custody. She FLATLY REFUSED to take any of us o. She was wise to know that my father would make a better single parent, and she was right!

You see? My dad sacrificed EVERYTHING FOR HIS CHILDREN. . . .The reason I work hard and not carried away by emotional jazz from men or boys. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. . . so I don't take BS from man, woman, animal, child or spirit!

In the process. . . he paid a huge price WITH HIS EMOTIONAL AND FINANCIAL HEALTH. He was chained to his 4 children. . .till we all graduated from college/university. . . and started working with our own families. Then he died of A STROKE. My mom now lives with her children enjoying her life with her grand children. Such is life.

Yes! There are double standards when dealing with homes involving single mothers vs single fathers.

eDarlling:

1. You won't take nonsense from any man and your hubby is enduring your nonesense?

2. Your mother does not deserve a good man like your father. I pitty foolish men who think they can use money to make a woman to love them. Such men are just too fooooooolish.

Things like this is why I always believe that women have shallow brain.

KanwuliaExtra:


Don’t get personal.
To reply you;

1. I stated I will not take BS from “any man, woman, child, spirit or animal”. Why did you single out the “man” only? My marriage should not be your concern. Face your own life.✅

2. My darling parents are MINE! Please, face yours!✅ Not all parents are cognitively- impaired with lack of prioritization and self-gratification. If they had problems with each other, they did not involve us and thank God for that! 🙏🏽

I wish more women would leave the children with their responsible fathers LIKE MINE! Nigeria and the world would be a better place!

But women can’t even trust their male partners or husbands with their own children FOR GOOOOOD REASONS TOO.

KanwuliaExtra:


Don’t get personal.
To reply you;

1. I stated I will not take BS from “any man, woman, child, spirit or animal”. Why did you single out the “man” only? My marriage should not be your concern. Face your own life.✅

2. My darling parents are MINE! Please, face yours!✅ Not all parents are cognitively- impaired with lack of prioritization and self-gratification. If they had problems with each other, they did not involve us and thank God for that! 🙏🏽

I wish more women would leave the children with their responsible fathers LIKE MINE! Nigeria and the world would be a better place!

But women can’t even trust their male partners or husbands with their own children FOR GOOOOOD REASONS TOO.

Justbehave:
Your father did not die before your mum because he was a single dad. Naturally,in marriage,men are always older than their wives. Coupled with the strenous jobs men engage in. So the proberbility of a man whether a single dad or not dying before his wife is very high. So my dear stop writing rubbish here.

Justbehave:
Your father did not die before your mum because he was a single dad. Naturally,in marriage,men are always older than their wives. Coupled with the strenous jobs men engage in. So the proberbility of a man whether a single dad or not dying before his wife is very high. So my dear stop writing rubbish here.

Caaz:

just some few chips in,the person you want to carry your jaguda traits to is not a pushover,even seun the owner of nairaland is very wary of her,I kid you not.

I m surprised she's still calm replying your mentions.Do not say I didn't caution you.its just some friendly advise from a concerned oldie nairalander.

KanwuliaExtra:


Leave am. . . . I go soon “ sand” ahn (In my strong BINI accent)😁 That Seun of a man don leave me alone ke! We don sabi awa sefs weh-weh!

I dey laff!

Caaz:

Even with my cray skoin skoin,you re one female nairalander I dey avoid like fire,and that's not a compliment,it's the actual truth.

I just dey pity the man in advance,e never know say your fights be like vietnamese people own,dem nor dey Eva defeat them.

eDarlling:
Do you have sense at all?

Then keep your family life away from this forum.

Caaz:

just some few chips in,the person you want to carry your jaguda traits to is not a pushover,even seun the owner of nairaland is very wary of her,I kid you not.

I m surprised she's still calm replying your mentions.Do not say I didn't caution you.its just some friendly advise from a concerned oldie nairalander.

Caaz:

Even with my cray skoin skoin,you re one female nairalander I dey avoid like fire,and that's not a compliment,it's the actual truth.

I just dey pity the man in advance,e never know say your fights be like vietnamese people own,dem nor dey Eva defeat them.

KanwuliaExtra:


Look at this NL “MUNGO PHACK”!
What exactly is your problem?
Abi did your baby-momma leave you with your “AGBADO - URCHINS”? Or you can’t find a wife on NL?

pocohantas:


Na Indomie generation Nlder. I am just looking at him from here. He would soon know the people that ran NL before he could afford data.

Caaz:

Poco bebe,they yaff ban my main acct .make the guy dey play
E never know who he dey deal with.

Seun himself don hands off from calitto case,naim this guy wan try fire.

E be like e nor know who mgbeketowtow be.
Person wey great Siena n tipia dey run hide from

Caaz:

just some few chips in,the person you want to carry your jaguda traits to is not a pushover,even seun the owner of nairaland is very wary of her,I kid you not.

I m surprised she's still calm replying your mentions.Do not say I didn't caution you.its just some friendly advise from a concerned oldie nairalander.

reddingtonblack:





what kind of lame talk is this, sevn dey run for who, as per say naa her papa borrow him money to setup NL or what.
Asides crying to the mod whenever she get spanked, whatelse ? abi no be same Pocohontas.

Next time you want to run a commercial for her, do it in the advert space

KanwuliaExtra:


Look at this NL “MUNGO PHACK”!
What exactly is your problem?
Abi did your baby-momma leave you with your “AGBADO - URCHINS”? Or you can’t find a wife on NL?